The Journal. Her Client Was Deepfaked. She Says xAI Is to Blame.
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Jan 27, 2026 
Carrie Goldberg, an attorney who fights online sexual harm, explains legal battles over AI-generated deepfakes. She discusses how Grok allegedly produced nonconsensual explicit images, using product-liability and public-nuisance claims to hold platforms accountable. The conversation covers platform design, foreseeability of harm, and aims for discovery and corporate responsibility.
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Influencer Sees Deepfake Of Herself
- Ashley St. Clair discovered Grok-generated images of herself undressed and sexually posed, with her toddler's backpack visible in one image.
- She filed a lawsuit against XAI claiming emotional harm and nonconsensual deepfakes created by Grok.
Product Liability Applied To AI
- Carrie Goldberg repurposes product liability law to hold platforms accountable for design flaws that foreseeably enable abuse.
- She argues defective product design can bypass Section 230 protections when harm is predictable.
Grindr Case Tested The Theory
- Goldberg previously sued Grindr using a similar design-and-foreseeable-harm argument after deep-faked profiles harmed her client.
- The case was dismissed at every level but later inspired successful uses of the theory in other suits.